#fanatic

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#even #everything #exhausted #fanatic #fiction

Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#college #comfortable #criminal #fanatic #had

My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air. ↗

— Dave Willis

#across #air #anything #children #creators

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#fanatics #respect #respect

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#ideology #movements #obvious #ideology

I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#am #america #attention #behind #big

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#blindly #book #evidence #fanatics #follow

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#fanatical #get #people #readers #rock

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#action #animate #any #basic #basic human rights

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender